Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-10-24

ing WAS pleased to think that L mad Drougut
a few Injuries with me. a pound or so of to-
bscco and 50 on: for evidently the outcast
had need of something to keep his spirits ND.
in view of the desolation around him.
Having thus reflected | looked again towards
the gloomy pool where had so nearly lost my
life Curiously enough, it seemed larger than
when had viewed ia fewminutes oeiore. AS
tried 70 account In my own NINA ior tnis
phenomenon lei' a tiemol,he u .ne GROUND
oenea.n my IeeI' anu, VIII - auI S.m;n ne,'
son a. wv III, -, ouaninr : vas, ch.sro
allied with black fosming water. and slid
away bodily toward the stream below.
few wards it thus moved unbroken, and then
split in every direction into maze of
islands, all borne downward by resstless
rush of water, that had accumulated twenty
feet beneath the bog upon the impervious
mari subsoil, and now bore away its load tri-
umphanty, in a roaring torrent, directed
straight upon the cottage by the stream.
At the first dull roar, / had seen-I seemed
to see everything at once-the door of the
hut open and man standing on the threshold
looking toward Tough Galliagh Then the
food broke. and cottage and man vanished
ike dream In the stream oeyonu, followed
by the great masses of peat, which choked up
the bed of the channel and piled themselves
on the further bank like chaos. | am not
ashamed to saw that I turned and ran for
nv life. There WAS no saving ybetter
INV mart of the hoo wonld not follow the
other However the release of the wat, r
bsa saved the remainder If the nes,. and
I uos .h,a hr nat;,o a L. d.,o,r 20
oro;a ~, oho,,, 49, 80 -, I,o,,rh
Gau;oh 49, =, s,r,,,o ~, ~ - 49, go,
~ ~ y. vi os' y" u
'oous a Hihe ''' .noi "o" u "Loie aii,"ut
crown vi c"uh'iy Peopie nau GO iecte''
ana were gszirg IN oe"iidered aston
ment at the devastation around
taein- O"e OF two OF the most practlcal-or
perhaps most apathetie-amongst them were
groplng IN the rapidly diminishing waters OF
the stream ana hShihs OUT reiics OF tue fur
nitufe OF 'ne cottage when nau oeen STRUCK
oy the hrSt force Oh the reieaseo waters ana
carried down the stream IN irhghents' before
Tue mass Vi l,ea' hau uaiiiiiitu 'he enannei'
hu' ,oo' oonheeh' onouVeo o"e s.t'i"ai
ieiio"' MINING vi W 'o''s Poie WIZ" a a'i.
mon gun DIT inc emu oi It, NAV mount oi
so'le'ni's "tisnly tnis ',liie' i"''io Hie q
han1' ana We II nave 1t out,
kf,e~ i''St'hc''Ve'S "na' was coming ana
SUI aI,A ilo'n 'no ne "oI''e.i 81 e"il'.
an, sne men u e.' 'iellieei'ce a. 'ne 10y
VI Aui iouS" 'en was ta'seu i,oiii .ue
water anu drawn Toward Cne oahk- MS
stern race win lts olacS balr looked
SET anu shaseiy III uea'n' anu IL hau
great gash acroSs Inc iorehean, causeu'
no douDt' oy some timoer OF the hut
striking 1t IN tire water There seemed some
dliflcuity IN getting the corpse out OF the
water, and 1t soon Appeared that the right
hand held a death grip OF something which
looked like bit of smoke Drowned rafter.
The salUon gait was again used, and the men
raised the body and its prize together.
"God be betune us and all evlli' shrieaed an
old woman "Sure, its his own brother he
has a hoult of Throw him in again, boys, or
bad luck will follow yezir